Racing News: July 24 Morning Report

Cain in 3000 at World Juniors; Huddle switches focus to roads.

Mary Cain in 3000-Meter Final at World Juniors TonightThe 18-year-old Oregon Project professional is the USA Junior champion, a title she won at the same Hayward Field track in Eugene where she’ll race tonight. Lilian Rengeruk of Kenya comes in with the fastest personal best (8:53.41); Sofia Ennaoui of Poland and Etagegn Woldu of Ethiopia are also among Cain’s challengers. But Cain has a kick, and has the experience of being in last year's senior World Championships 1500-meter final. More (Start Lists)

Bahrain’s World Juniors Team Has Kenyan FlavorThree of the ten athletes on the Middle East country's team are from Kenya. The Daily Nation in Kenya takes a disapproving tone, but this nation-switching is nothing new. Maryam Jamal and Rashid Ramzi, who both won 1500-meter World Championships gold for Bahrain, are from Ethiopia and Morocco, respectively. IAAF President Lamine Diack is blasé on the issue, saying, “We cannot close the door to athletes who change nationality because the world today is a global village.” More

Molly Huddle’s Track Season May Be OverNothing alarming here for the woman with the #2 time in the world for the 10,000 this year and a new American 5000-meter record. She tells Competitor.com, “I think I’m just going to do a bunch of U.S. road races. I don’t think I’m going to go back to Europe for the second half of the [track] season.” More

Harvey Lewis Wins Badwater Ultramarathon in Fourth TryThe teacher from Cincinnati, who’d been fourth in this grueling race in 2012 and 2013, triumphed this time, reaching the Mount Whitney Portal finish in 23:52:55, well ahead of Australia’s Grant Maughan, the runner-up in 24:43:08. Alyson Venti, a University of Miami graduate student, was the women’s winner in 28:37:28, with Pam Reed second in 29:30:04. The Badwater race’s start this year was moved out of Death Valley National Park, where a safety study is being conducted, and the ultramarathon had more vertical ascent and descent than usual. More

Heather Kampf Attempts a Threepeat at Ryan Shay MileKampf won the 2014 USA Road Mile Championship in Des Moines and on Saturday she’ll seek her third straight victory at the Shay Mile in Charlevoix, Michigan. Rob Finnerty, who’s run 3:38 for 1500 meters, is the favorite in the men’s mile. More